Preparation

2005-09-05T22:30:00.000-07:00

I've been giving a lot of thought to images and poetry. Am particularly taken with the idea of Haiku Video. Am mulling over ways to incorporate word and image and sound. Thinking more along the lines of installation, at least of sound and image. I've been thinking about narrative because I'm preparing for a video workshop based on narrative. Reading Haiku, more specifically, the forward to an anthology edited by Fabioun Bowers "The Classic Tradition of Haiku", I learned that:

"In the sixteenth century, the tradtional arts truly rose in popularity among the common people. Along with Kabuki theater and ukiyo-e (woodblock prints), haikai-no-renga raged as a national fad. Haikai, from two words meaning "sportive" and "pleasantry", meant unusual or offbeat and is translated (somewhat deceptively) as 'comic linked verse".........Haikai spoke in everyday language and sometimes, in its exuberance, became little more than a display of wit and scatology." (1996, Dover Publications, INC. Mineaola, New York)

It excites me that woodblock prints and Haiku (printmaking and poetry) were linked together at least as art form that was a fad for Japanese folk in the 16th century. It also seemed coincidental in that I have been thinking about ways to join poetry within printmaking or vice versa. Like oddly coincidental, in that sign-ish way. Continue this way, I thought, see what unfolds. Plus, combining wit and scatology appeals.

Found

2005-08-31T11:06:00.000-07:00

Lost Pictures

2005-08-31T10:52:00.000-07:00

Outside the wind blows
I sit, losing images
already taken.

Miss Missy

2005-08-31T09:05:00.000-07:00

The girl that inspired me to blog!
A.K.A my daughter, Ali!

In the mix

2005-08-30T21:35:00.000-07:00

Visual Haiku

Preparation

Found

Lost Pictures

Miss Missy

In the mix